Classes and Workshops
Let Kate’s Open Quilt Studio be your new quilting and sewing home to try new projects, learn new techniques and push past the traditional to try new things. Whether you’re working on your first pieced quilt top, pillowcase, or a challenging piece of textile art to hang on your wall, we are happy to help. Every student and every project is important to us. We offer dynamic bilingual classes for beginners and advanced quilters alike. We can’t wait to share our passion with you!
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What you need to bring for Nearly Every Class
Your sewing machine in good working order with the instruction manual and a sewing kit. Sewing kits consist of the following items - needles, thread, seam ripper, scissors, straight pins, pencil/pen and paper (or notebook), quilting ruler, rotary cutter and mat and an extra bobbin. You are welcome to borrow a Bernina or Baby Lock for the day. Just call ahead to verifiy which machines are available.
Please arrive between 10 - 15 minutes before class so we may begin on time.
How to Choose a Class:
Beginner - someone with little to no piecing, quilting, or rotary cutting experience.
Confident Beginner - someone with some piecing, quilting, and rotary cutting experience.
Intermediate - someone with piecing, quilting, and rotary cutting experience who knows how to add borders and binding. Or has completed a beginner/intermediate class. Someone who is comfortable reading a pattern and reproducing it.
Advanced - someone with knowledge of piecing, cutting, angles, curved seams, templates and the finishing details of quilting.
*** Copyrighted Material - Many of the classes we offer will require the purchase of a pattern or book. Since the information contained in these books and patterns is considered ‘copyrighted’ material, it is illegal to photocopy all or any portion of the information.***
Beginner Quilt Class
This 10 week course will give you a solid foundation to quilting, mastering techniques, practicing important techniques, with clear and detailed instructions to guide you throughout. We offer a modern way of thinking about quilting, with guides of threads, fabric types, how to use the internet, etc. Educator: Ann Mitton
Embroidery Quilt Project
Join Susan Delaney and Ann Mitton at Kate’s Open Quilt Studio every second Saturday of the month from 10 am - 3 pm and increase your machine embroidery skills. Learn what machine embroidery can do for you! You will enjoy a full day that includes demo, lecture and stitching out a free design.
Each month Susan will introduce you to a new technique starting with ‘free standing lace’.
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Membership is $15 per month which includes special discounts, gifts and discounted OESD ordering options available on the day of the club.
As a prerequisite to this workshop, you should know how to use your embroidery unit and how to load a design to your machine from a USB stick. If this is a problem, make an appointment with Kate and she will show you these basics at an agreed upon date before the class. If you want to embroider on a Bernina or Baby Lock, Kate will be happy to loan you one for the day.
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Registration is required for each month as seating is limited. If there is enough interest, a second date will be added.
BERNINA Club
Join Kate Bowron and Marilyn O’Brien at Kate’s Open Quilt Studio from 1 pm - 4 pm on the second Friday of the month to learn more about your BERNINA sewing machine. Sessions will focus on creative techniques with your BERNINA sewing machine, introducing new presser feet and accessories. Projects will feature useful items to make and give or skills to acquire to add to your machine mastery.
Membership to this 12 session club is free for the first year for those who have purchased a BERNINA sewing machine from Kate’s Open Quilt Studio, however some sessions will require the purchase of a kit. For all others membership is $5.00 per session joined. Seating is limited, so please register for this club as soon as possible.
If you would like to use a Studio BERNINA for the club, please inform Kate as to which days you would like to borrow a machine for, as well as your machine preference. Ability to loan out machines will be based on availability and demand.
Kate's Mystery Quilt
Sign up in December for our first 4 month mystery quilt challenge! Pick up your fabric package and next steps each month from January to April. Quilt size is 60 x 70 with an option to make it larger. Pick up your first kit in January.
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